Dates to remember

March

• Easter - Talkabout blogs include - Easter Crafts, Maths MFL & RE Too!
• Check out this site - Vive Paques
• For the Easter story - the Cate Ouest siteis very simple and good RE links
• Download Easter powerpoints in French and Spanish, also some smart IWB rresources
• 21st International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2009

April

• 1st - Poisson d'Avril - April Fool's Day - blogs include Poisson d'avril - April Fools day Fun in French with KS1 and KS2

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May

• 21st - World Day for Cultural Diversity 2009*

June

• 8th World Ocean Day 2009*

July

• 14th - Le Quatorze Juillet - Bastille Day: Talkabout Blog post for ideas and a Bastille Day powerpoint to download.

August

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September

• European Day of Languages - blogpost Talkabout ideas include European Day of Languages - It Ain't Too Late, also try this discussion thread with lots and lots of resources included to download European Day of Languages - What will you do? and a powerpoint for an assembly.

October

• 31st - Hallowe'en - download some spooky French powerpoints for practising directions and prepositions from this Halloween in the MFL classroom blogpost. The comments afterwards contain lots of ideas for Dia de los Muertos in Spanish
• Another Halloween song from Henri Des is at this blogpost with the lyrics and a YouTube video to download.
• Babara Jones posted this Dia de los Muertos blogpost with loads of fun ideas and info.
• Lisa Stevens posted links to YouTube videos in Spanish for Halloween, including La canción de las brujas.

November

• 5th - Bonfire Night - link to a French explanation.
• 11th - Armistice day - link to a simple low key blog post
• 11th - St Martins Day Lanternfest- German festival when children make lanterns - more info soon in a blogpost.

December

• 24th - Christmas Eve - Talkabout Blog posts with lots of xmas ideas include
• Christmas Favourites - What's Yours,
• Christmas MFL Ideas, Sites and resources,
• French Stories online- with a christmas stopry recommendation in the form of an interactive book for your IWB.
• Download 2 games for learning clothes with a French christmas theme; follow me cards and an oxo board
• Check out this French site - ViveNoel.com
• story for Christmas in Spanish - El pequeño petirrojo
• Resources for Christmas - Fr / Ger/Sp - here!
• 28th - el Día de los Santo Inocentes - an important Spanish festival, treated similarly to April fool's day in the UK - read more from Lisa Steven's Vamanos blog.

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